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branchers

branchers is the plural of brancher.

Meaning of brancher

Noun (1)

brancher (plural branchers)

  1. That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
  2. That which branches, or jumps to another instruction location within a program.
    • None of the brancher instructions have any effect whatsoever on any flags; instead, they are the instructions which look at the flags.1983, Richard Mansfield, Machine Language for Beginners, page 69

Noun (2)

brancher (plural branchers)

  1. A young owl or other raptor that is just too young to fly.
    • “What, ho! sir knave,” exclaimed Roland, “is it thus you feed the eyasse with unwashed meat, as if you were gorging the foul brancher of a worthless hoodie-crow, by the mass?[…]”1820, [Walter Scott], chapter IV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...

Questions about branchers

What is branchers the plural of?
Branchers is the plural of brancher.

Words near branchers in the dictionary

  1. branched out
  2. branched-chain
  3. branchedness
  4. brancher
  5. brancheries
  6. branchers
  7. branchery
  8. branches
  9. branches of government
  10. branches off
  11. branches out

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